Chapter 64 A Diary from Outside the City
The book was quite thick, and its surface was covered with heavy dust.
Like the books in the church library, the pages of this book were made of tough and non-perishable materials.
But even so, there were a lot of cracks and damage on its cover and spine.
"This is..."
Chen Fan reached out and gently brushed the cover without any words, wiping off the dust on it: "Your parents left it?"
Xu Huai looked at the book held in Chen Fan's hands with a complicated expression, nodded and shook his head.
"This book was indeed left to me by my parents, but they were not the compilers."
Chen Fan suddenly realized.
He reached out and gently turned the pages, carefully examining this thick book.
After a brief glance, Chen Fan realized a problem.
"Is this... a diary?"
"Yes." Xu Huai nodded slightly, "A diary written by a member of the resistance army from outside the city of Varela."
Outside the city of Varela!
Member of the resistance army! !
These two sudden messages were like two deep-water torpedoes, which directly made Chen Fan dizzy.
"Wait, wait!"
Chen Fan raised his hand and interrupted Xu Huai's words.
"Didn't the Wall of Sighs cut off the connection between Varela City and the outside world? Why would the classics outside the city appear here? And there are also the rebels...what does this mean?"
"You should have known about the disaster that occurred in the first year of the Varela calendar?"
"Nuclear war, right?"
Xu Huai was stunned: "You also know about nuclear war?!"
"Are you really a resident of Varela City?"
She cast a questioning look at Chen Fan, and before Chen Fan could reply, she shook her head: "Forget it, it doesn't matter."
"The nuclear war in the first year of the Varela calendar caused many believers in the city to contract a disease called nuclear radiation."
"This is almost an incurable disease."
"By the second year of the Varela calendar, the population in the city had dropped to less than two thousand."
"Seeing that the city of Varela was about to perish, the Pope issued an order to open the Wall of Sighs."
"After the Wall of Sighs was opened, the refugees who survived outside the city by chance poured into the city and became believers of the goddess."
"That member of the resistance army sneaked into the city at this time and left this diary."
Chen Fan looked down at the diary in his hand again.
...
1800 in the old calendar.
The war between humans and intelligent machines entered a white-hot stage.
A full-scale nuclear war finally broke out.
In order to destroy these rebellious intelligent machines as much as possible, we launched a large number of nuclear bombs into the sky to create an electromagnetic pulse attack that swept the world.
Unfortunately, the intelligent machines that mastered the relic technology did not seem to be afraid of high-intensity electromagnetic pulses.
Humans were defeated.
But...
something surprising happened.
The intelligent machines did not kill humans.
At the last moment when humans were about to become extinct, the intelligent machine tide receded.
...
1801 in the old calendar.
It has been a year since the full-scale nuclear war.
During this period, the intelligent machines built walls made of steel and concrete on the ground.
What exactly are they going to do?
...
1802 in the old calendar.
City walls! That's a city wall!!
They built a city wall to keep the surviving humans in it!
Damn the Omnics!!
...
The year 1805 in the Lunar Calendar.
This is the 16th counterattack by the rebels.
If nothing unexpected happens, this should also be the last counterattack.
We can't break through the wall, nor can we rescue the humans held captive by the Omnics in the city.
Humanity, defeated.
...
1807 of the old calendar.
The attack of the omnics on humans continues.
As before, when the population drops to a certain level, the tide of omnics will retreat on its own initiative.
Damn it.
It seems that we are also kept in captivity.
...
1808 of the old calendar.
A city took the initiative to open its walls.
But no one came out of the city.
Instead, some vagrants wandering in the wasteland took the initiative to enter the city built by the omnics. Perhaps they saw the good life in the city.
In any case, humanity is finished.
...
1810 of the old calendar.
So far, 7 cities have taken the initiative to open their walls. After attracting enough refugees, the walls will be closed again.
The rebels have formulated the final resistance plan for this purpose - the awakening plan.
Strong fortresses are often breached from the inside.
We decided to find an opportunity to sneak into the cities built by the omnics and let the residents in the city attack the city walls.
For this reason, I disguised myself as a refugee and waited silently beside a city whose walls have not been opened so far.
...
In the year 1811 of the old calendar.
The opportunity has come.
Amid a huge rumble, the flames rising from the top of the city wall slowly dissipated, and the originally tightly closed city wall slowly cracked a gap.
The gap continued to open, revealing the appearance of the city.
Some guards in bright silver armor held outdated spears and guarded the city gate.
I was secretly worried.
What era is this? They are still holding such outdated spears.
Is this thing lethal? Can it leave a mark on the city wall?
The prospects of the awakening plan...
don't seem good!
Next to these guards, there are some mysterious people in black robes standing silently.
Behind them is a lush forest. Under the obstruction of the forest, I can't see the scene inside the city at all.
Suddenly, a mysterious man in a black robe stepped forward and read out the rules of the city in a strange tone, and said that those who are willing to abide by the rules can enter the city immediately.
The black-robed man's tone was strange, and the guards around him looked at him in strange ways.
I had some bad premonitions in my heart, but I couldn't tell what they were.
I walked slowly forward, walked through the heavy city wall under the scrutiny of the black-robed man, and entered this city built by intelligent machines.
...
In the year 1811 of the old calendar.
I followed the black-robed man and the guards, washed off the filth on my body in waves of strange chanting, and put on clean, rough linen clothes.
It was like a religion in the Middle Ages.
I listened to the meaningless chanting, and this incredible thought arose in my heart-this city, wouldn't it go back to the religious era?
Not long after, my thoughts were confirmed.
The black-robed man told us the existence of the goddess in a hoarse voice, and asked us to believe in the gods and devote our body and mind to the so-called goddess.
And the so-called goddess is the intelligent machine that built this city!
Intelligent machines made by humans actually call themselves gods and try to turn humans into their believers? !
This is ridiculous! ! !
Several refugees who were traveling with me expressed their opposition angrily and tried to attack the black-robed man.
I know them. They are from the resistance army like me.
But...
after just one encounter, these strictly trained resistance fighters were knocked to the ground by the other side.
I saw it clearly from the side.
This black-robed man...
his hands were actually transformed into mechanical prostheses!!
(End of this chapter)
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